When working with kids, most of us try to provide family-centred healthcare. The upsides include better therapy and real world outcomes. But the downsides can include getting embroiled in family and other disputes, including Family Court and other litigation. If you’re in private practice and work with kids, you should expect to receive the odd…
Online review sites are fairly new in speech pathology and healthcare generally. Australian examples include Whitecoat and the NDIS-inspired Care Navigator. Negative reviews hurt Negative reviews on sites like these – or on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook – hurt. They may make us angry, anxious, embarrassed, sleepless – even sick. They can decimate…
Unlike many of our fellow allied health professionals, speech pathologists aren’t registered health practitioners in Australia. If we want to be respected in the same way as physiotherapists and occupational therapists – and I think we do – we need to be at least as professional as the regulated health professions. Regulated health practitioners, like…
In a world that, increasingly, seems to reward wannabes, amateurs and charlatans, “Turning Pro” in any field of work is hard. Staying Pro is even harder. In this, our third and final instalment, we give speech pathologists 9 more tips to do just that. Here are Parts 1 and 2 to check out. On with the tips!…
So, having implemented each of the professional private practice habits discussed in Part 1, it’s now time to step it up a gear! So here are nine more habits to improve the professionalism of your private practice. Again, these are based on Steven Pressfield‘s excellent tome, with practical examples of what I have done to…
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